Saturday, May 20, 2017

1 Day to Departure

At last the big day is tomorrow. We had hoped for a cool day without rain but, alas, it will be wet with the possibility of precipitation being 30% according to Environment Canada or 80% according to the Weather Network. To add insult to injury, the wind forecast is for a 22 km/h headwind.I took an extra week off from work to attend to what I thought would be small last-minute details.Turns out that on Tuesday evening, I discovered that we had overlooked sewing Snatch-Tabs to the under side of our tarp. Without those Snatch-Tabs, it would have been impossible to suspend our Net-Tent to the tarp. A good thing we had some slack built into the schedule.Hélène decided to modify her newly acquired 'Handle bar bag'. See the video below. I was also able to visit the Mountain Equipment Cooperative (MEC) without what Hélène refers too as "Adult Supervision". I took full advantage of that and brought home items that I consider to be essential for this and follow-on trips, namely a spare rear derailleur. While not essential for this trip, it most certainly is for the Alaskan trip and thus part of the 'Experiment'.Today, we are going to give the bicycles a final going over, clean and lubricate the chains, verify that we have everything and that it is distributed evenly amongst the panniers. Finally, we will have a quiet supper at the world-famous 'Elgin Street Dinner' and make it an early night.